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FrameMaker (7, anyway) imports the Word Equations as WMF. That does me
in a pinch. I prefer to retype the equations in FrameMaker's equation
editor, though. According to MathType support, they can't handle
TrueType fonts and I'm not using PS fonts, so I had to give that up.
Otherwise, I'd be half inclined to create an EPS library of equations.
Word and FrameMaker Equations really aren't handled as an integral part
of the software, and--to my knowledge--third-party conversion of these
is non-existent. I never did equations in the other tools you mention.
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From: W. Ross Stone [mailto:71221 -dot- 621 -at- compuserve -dot- com]
I am Editor-in-Chief of one of the IEEE magazines. About 85% of
our input comes
in the form of Microsoft Word documents, with a large number of
equations in
Equation Editor or MathType. Since we use MathType to set all complex
symbols
and even units (for typographic reasons), it is not unusual to have 500
- 1000
equation objects in an issue. We currently print galleys from Word, and
use
manual paste-up and photographic plate-making to produce the printing
plates. We
want to go to computer-to-plate. Is there any page-layout software
available
that will import Word documents while maintaining the equations?
To the best of my knowledge (and this is also based on some
experience),
Ventura, Quark, InDesign, PageMaker, and FrameMaker don't do it (and the
latter
two really aren't suitable for a magazine, anyway). At best, these
require that
you manually insert each equation object, typically as an EPS object. If
someone
knows differently on the basis of first-hand experience, please explain!
There
are TEX-based solutions, but our input isn't in TEX. Re-keying the
equations and
symbols isn't an option. HELP!
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